Datanomic
Published: 22nd March 2003 | By: Philip Howard
Datanomic is both the name of a product and the company that provides it. The product combines data discovery / analysis / auditing facilities with data cleansing capability. The data cleansing can be run simultaneously with the auditing process, or…
Informatica – Products and Strategies
Published: 6th March 2003 | By: Philip Howard
Informatica offers four sets of products. Three of these: the company’s Data Integration Platform, which consists of Informatica PowerCenter and its associated products; the Informatica Warehouse, which is a ‘packaged’ data warehouse solution that makes use of the Data Integration…
Shadow Mainframe Integration Adapters from NEON Systems
Published: 20th January 2003 | By: Philip Howard
The Shadow technology set from NEON Systems provides application platform to mainframe integration. Shadow supports industry standard programming API?s such as JDBC, J2CA and ODBC, and provides access to critical mainframe resources, including DB2, CICS, IMS/TM, IMS/DB, VSAM, Adabas and…
Enterprise Repositories and Metadata Management from Allen Systems Group (ASG)
Published: 20th January 2003 | By: Philip Howard
Allen Systems Group (ASG) is the market-leading supplier of two Enterprise Repositary products. These are ASG-Manager Products, which is a mainframe based product; and ASG-Rochade, which runs on a wide range of platforms and is suitable for use in a…
Linux – Enterprise Ready?
Published: 9th January 2003 | By: Joe Clabby
You may remember that just three years ago, Bloor Research published a report concluding that Linux was not yet ready to support large enterprise applications. Bloor Research North America recently completed a follow-up study looking at the Linux of today…
Dollar Universe from ORSYP
Published: 6th January 2003 | By: Philip Howard
Dollar Universe is job scheduling software provided by ORSYP, a French company that has been focused exclusively on this market for over a decade. The product is designed to provide all the robustness, flexibility and management capability of a mainframe…
Enterprise Integration Suite from Ascential Software
Published: 10th December 2002 | By: Philip Howard
The Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite consists of all the components that you might need for an integration environment. That is: connections to just about any data source you might care to name, data profiling and quality checking, data cleansing, and…
The Grid Report
Published: 5th December 2002 | By: Joe Clabby
Grid computing has received a lot of attention lately – some positive and some not so positive. Bloor Research North America has just completed a study that examines the grid market and looks closely at where grids are being used…
Temtec Executive Viewer
Published: 30th October 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Executive Viewer is an OLAP viewer. That is to say, it is intended to allow business users to examine information held within OLAP cubes, without recourse to the IT department or developers. Indeed, Executive Viewer is sufficiently easy to use…
Innovations in data warehousing – Answering Complex, Real-Time and Dynamic Queries
Published: 1st October 2002 | By: Philip Howard
Conventional approaches to data warehousing have significant problems with a number of types of query. For example, when attempting to answer complex analytical queries it typically takes either a very long time (certainly measured in hours and often in days)…